Outside of Frankenreiter, any music from surfer turned musician is usually very frigging boring...unlike the surfing in the video.

I find Frankenreiter's shit as boring, generic and self-righteous as anything on the market. Sunchild sucked too. He's completely riding on Jack Johnson's coattails. Even though Jack Johnson is pretty one-dimensional and played out, he has a better sound than Frankenreiter and more original lyrics.

I should want to cook him a simple meal, but I shouldn't want to cut into him, to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born unto new worlds where his flesh becomes my key.

Including Frankenreiter, Yak Johnson, and everyone else that has popped up in the last 10 years and wields an acoustic guitar, any music from surfer turned musician is usually very frigging boring...unlike the surfing in the video. Damn, screw ups look like that could be fatal.

As for the footage. Meh. Don't get me wrong, those are gnar waves for sure. I just never bought in to the whole tow in thing. The few times I gave it a whril, I got a shit load of waves. Instead on one per hour (my usual big wave quota), I was getting 10. But it sure felt like cheating. IMO, a big part of the rush of big wave surfing is tracking those beast down.

On the other hand, I would not even tow into those at Shipsterns. Besides, I ski now in the winters.

I find Frankenreiter's shit as boring, generic and self-righteous as anything on the market. Sunchild sucked too. He's completely riding on Jack Johnson's coattails. Even though Jack Johnson is pretty one-dimensional and played out, he has a better sound than Frankenreiter and more original lyrics.

Glad I started surfing in my mid 30s, so I had a little common sense.
Back then, the occasional double overhead plus day was fun.
No way would you have got me out on 25-30 foot faces like the video
Now I am sticking to about 10 foot faces or less. I just hate getting pounded.
Let the young guys have this shit, I am over it.
Fuck if it is that big in the winter, I will just go skiing

Originally Posted by leroy jenkins

I think you'd have an easier time understanding people if you remembered that 80% of them are fucking morons.

That is why I like dogs, more than most people.

Originally Posted by telemike

at this point I don't care about gnar - I care about having teh funz skiing